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Textfiles.com Needs Your Help
Jason Scott, owner of textfiles.com and long time friend of the c0w, has come up short this quarter on his hosting bill and needs some help. If you want a good overview of what all Jason and textfiles.com does and hosts, check out the site’s 10 Year Anniversary. Jason is single-handedly archiving „everything digital“, and could use a hand.Ein Teil der Geschichte des Internets, seien es BBS, Ham Radio, Phreaking, oder auch die Archive von cDc, PHAIT, BLACKCIRCLE

Database Administrators Playing Increasingly Crucial Role In Security
In the past, database administrators weren’t expected to do much with security. Their focus was on the speed, performance, and accuracy of the data. Security was a relatively low priority.Echt? Und ich dachte immer, Sicherheit hat jeden anzugehen, ob DBMS, oder nicht. Kommt mir bitte nicht jetzt mit Jericho, alte Socken in neuer Verpackung.

40+ Awesome Typography Wallpapers, serious inspiration
I have a soft spot for good quality typography. It is just nice and inpireing to look at I think. Adding typography art to desktop wallpapers seams to be quite common and it gives us a good oppertunity to have a source of typography inspiration in a place where we wont forget to look at it. So why not look through the more than 40 awesome Typography Wallpapers collected for you in this article. Most wallpapers are available in the common resolutions even though it is not indicated here. A few of the picks here require registration to download but all are free.
Typos FTW.

Biculturalism by Joel Spolsky
By now, Windows and Unix are functionally more similar than different. They both support the same major programming metaphors, from command lines to GUIs to web servers; they are organized around virtually the same panoply of system resources, from nearly identical file systems to memory to sockets and processes and threads. There’s not much about the core set of services provided by each operating system to limit the kinds of applications you can create.